Directorate of Health Risk Management

DSN 584-6096/Commercial (410) 436-6096/ Facsimile (410) 436-4784

We enhance readiness by providing worldwide guidance and support to ensure commanders have the information required to make decisions based on the available health risk management data.

Dedicated and committed to providing worldwide health risk management expertise, this directorate works to enhance the readiness of the U.S. Army on behalf of the Army Surgeon General. Our staff of professional scientists, engineers, and technicians provides a wide variety of services supporting health risk management listed below to enable the Army and DOD leadership to integrate informed risk management decisions into all Army and DOD activities.

Environmental Health Risk Assessment Program
Program Manager: DSN 584-2953/Commercial (410) 436-2953

Our trained professionals determine human health risks in support of the DOD community and preventive medicine programs worldwide.

USACHPPM can provide your organization with expert services in the areas of human health and environmental risk assessment and management. We conduct health risk assessments, review risk documentation prepared by others, provide consultative services, and assist your environmental specialists in addressing environmental health risk issues.

DOD/ATSDR Program
Department of Defense Lead Agent for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Program: DSN 584-4929/Commercial (410) 436-4929

We work with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), part of the U.S. Public Health Service, to provide evaluations of public health near Department of Defense sites. ATSDR prepares public health assessments, health studies, health education programs and toxicological profiles.

Deployment Environmental Surveillance Program (DESP)

Program Manager: 584-6096/Commercial (410) 436-6096

Knowledge of the health risks from occupational and environmental health exposures can benefit the field commanders and their medical staff in assessing the medical threat and determining appropriate countermeasures.

The DESP includes assessment of all occupational and environmental exposures that deployed troops may encounter and evaluation of potential health risks. The DESP is an expansion of the work

USACHPPM has been conducting on the exposure of Operation Desert Storm veterans to oil well fire emissions. Extensive exposure data and information are obtained on all potential theaters of operation worldwide. Prior to deployment, the DESP is used to determine possible medical threats and appropriate countermeasures to alert commanders to the potential occupational and environmental dangers in the region. During and following deployment, the actual exposure data and medical outcomes are gathered from the field and/or research groups to alert the field commander and his medical staff, the DOD community, and the Veterans Administration of potential health threats to deployed troops.

By linking the various databases containing environmental exposure data, medical outcome data, troop movement information, and geographic locations, and by using the Geographical Information System, the DES provides map overlays to display health risks to deployed personnel.

Health Risk Communication Program
Program Manager: DSN 584-2953/Commercial (410) 671-2953

Our trained professionals assist and train personnel to effectively communicate technical and scientific information related to human health risks.

USACHPPM can provide your organization with expert services in the area of health risk communication training, consultative services, and also provide assistance to your commanders, public affairs staff, technical personnel, and environmental specialists.